Compact microstrip lowpass filter using meandered unequal T-shaped resonator with ultra-wide rejection band

In this paper, a compact lowpass filter (LPF) with ultra-wide rejection band has been presented. In fact, a novel meandered semi-hairpin resonator has been used and the stopband characteristics have been improved by using a combinatorial suppressing unit. The suppressing unit contains a combination between T-shaped and semi-circular patches, which are loaded symmetrically to the designed resonator. For the proposed LPF, the-3 dB cut-off frequency has been adjusted to 2.2 GHz. After simulations, the proposed LPF has been fabricated and tested. The experimental results validated that the rejection bandwidth is expanded from 2.471 GHz to 28.62 GHz with corresponding attenuation level of -20 dB. The transition band is only 0.271 GHz from 2.2 GHz to 2.471 GHz with corresponding attenuation levels of -3 dB to -20 dB, respectively. In addition, the measured maximum insertion loss and return loss in the passband, from DC to 2.04 GHz (93% of the passband region) are 0.2 dB and 17 dB, respectively.

Lowpass filter, Microstrip, Resonator, Suppressing unit, Ultra-wide rejection band